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I thought the Tea Party was for NO NEW TAXES, a pledge we heard Bush Sr. make years back. And yet they are the big spenders, they are no better than Republicans on earmarks, or Raising your Taxes!!! I would say the T-Party voters were lied to, and to have any credibility at all, they should demand those congressional members resign. Is there going to be a price paid for their lies and deceit? I doubt it, whacky T-Party members will just make up excuses for their taxing behaviors like everybody else does. Clean up the government?? LMAO!!!
Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.
According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.
"It's disturbing to see the Tea Party Caucus requested that much in earmarks. This is their time to put up or shut up, to be blunt," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste. "There's going to be a huge backlash if they continue to request earmarks."
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks - Hotline On Call
Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.
According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.
"It's disturbing to see the Tea Party Caucus requested that much in earmarks. This is their time to put up or shut up, to be blunt," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste. "There's going to be a huge backlash if they continue to request earmarks."
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks - Hotline On Call